Origin
In 1861, Irish immigrant Dooley O’Shaughnessy was a soldier for the Confederate army during the American Civil War. He was burying the dead in Virginia, when the bell of a safety coffin started to ring. He dug up the coffin up, believing someone to be buried alive, but he unwillingly released the vampire madame, Constance Der Abend. She was bored by the war, hoping to sleep through the whole thing, so he accompanied her back to New York, where he worked as her familiar, until her home and native soil, the source of her power, was set ablaze by monster hunters 10 years after their arrival.
Creation
Dooley debuted in West of Sundown #1 by Tim Seeley and Jim Terry
Major Story Arcs
Sangre de Moro
Dooley locked her in a coffin like box and travelled west with her to New Mexico, the land where she was reborn as a vampire, so they could recover native soil for her to use. They settle in the frontier town of Sangro de Moro waiting for sunset so they could travel to the mesa where the church was was turned was. What they on her land was a barn housing a cult with Pischachas in their employ. Dooley is badly injured by a paralyzing bite from one of the demons, so they collect what little soil they can, so Constance could get Dooley back to town and save his life.
Back at the town, they are attacked by Mister Dirck (Frankenstein’s Monster) and his partner, Mister Griffin, a monster hunting duo who had burned their home in New York and followed them to New Mexico. Unfortunately, on her native soil, Constance was too powerful for Dirck to take in hand to hand combat. She was able to break enough of his limbs for her and her wounded familiar to get away.
Blood of the Father
Fleeing the town, Constance instructed Dooley to go around the mesa so they could collect more soil but avoid the cult. Unfortunately, they passed through the veil into another dimension as fabled by the indigenous tribes. Dirck and Griffin, who were giving chased, unknowingly followed them through. Once there, their potential confrontation was interrupted by the personal demons of Dirck, Griffin, and Dooley. Seemingly with no other choice, the two monster hunters made a bargain with the fleeing monster to work together to escape.
She was lured by the smell of blood to a version of the church she was transformed in. Inside was the portion of her father’s soul he had left behind on the day he made a deal with the spirit world for the power to save his daughter. It warned Constance the Herzog Jung, the leader of the cult, was drawn to this land by legends of her father, known colloquially as El Moro. Jung pretended to be El Moro’s familiar only to lock him up and siphon off his power. The half-spirit charges Constance with the duty of saving her father and stopping Jung from completing a blood ritual that would earn him entrance to the spirit world.
Passing back to the Earthly plane through a portal of blood, Constance and her new compatriots run into Sheriff Wolff. He had followed the cult, who kidnapped most of the town for their blood ritual. Unfortunately, Constance had no lost love for her father and considering the fate of the residents of Sangre de Moro none of her business, Constance was happy to collect more soil and leave. Dooley, less so. He joined the sheriff and the hunters to save the town. The love she felt for Dooley was enough to join them.
They killed Jung and freed El Moro, only to fling him into the spirit world. With the dust settled, the town of Sangre de Moro was re-settled. The sheriff returned to his post. Griffen opened an apothecary. Dirck took on the role of town minister. The cult members were reluctantly reintegrated . Constance, who reclaimed her birth name Rosa, traded her land and the cult’s farm to the bar owner, Cumberland Manor, who dreamed of being a farmer, for his bar, on the condition she could return for soil.